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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 12, 2016 14:20:44 GMT -5
I hope I've interpreted the question correctly...
My guess is that there is more than one solution. This is as near as I could get after 'tubing the Farina version and strobing my Yammy, because I first did it by ear from memory and had the wrong key. No perfect pitch here!
G string 12th Fret. D string 7th Fret. B string 7th Fret. (or D string 9th (or 4th Fret)) A string 9th (or 4th) Fret.
(Bobby Inguano's version is spirit lifting and also elevates this piece, but I still love Gatton's take too.)
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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 8, 2016 17:59:57 GMT -5
"And she has no idea about the two bodies and three necks in a box in the garage..."
Mine has evolved sufficiently to identify certain obvious types and thus any new (or different) guitars. But she does not (yet) recognise one black case from any other... She hasn't tumbled the Tacoma built Guild 512 12 string yet for that reason! (She doesn't read this forum either!)
Regarding the node position and lack of output; I seem to recall a thread (on here was it?) where someone placed a treble pick up right next to the bridge saddles (was it even behind the bridge?- CRS!) and I convinced myself that the string vibration would be so tiny that it would not cross the magnetic field sufficiently (or at all) to produce any appreciable output- especially given that we adjust pick up heights depending on the distance from the bridge saddles to maintain an even output, but it turned out that I was completelywrong. I would have put money on it too. That's the trouble with theory. The beater with a bath tub rout is the way I'd go too C1.
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 24, 2016 7:54:11 GMT -5
Hello darkness my old friend...
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 19, 2016 13:50:29 GMT -5
My sister does that spoon "trick" too, but then she also has an unshakable faith in homeopathy. Jury's out it seems, but until it returns my name has to be Thomas I'm afraid.
Slewing back a bit to the thread, PV=nRT. I understood that to be PV=mRT, where the R is the universal gas constant and m represents mol which has something to do with equivalence of molecular weight with something else that slips my mind after north of three decades. Is the use of n in the equation an American take on it? As is my custom, I quote from memory and not t'interweb, so it's not a rhetorical question, just brought back memories when I saw it that's all.
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 7, 2016 14:14:13 GMT -5
Deliberately giving subjective things the swerve, I'd just offer the observation that in my opinion, active pickups notwithstanding, pickups are passive devices that do not exhibit any gain.
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 6, 2016 13:35:48 GMT -5
I was seven too. As kids, we all had Beatle mugs, plates and egg cups. Would probably be worth a few shekels nowadays! I was too young to see them, didn't give it a thought actually and when the 1970s music came along I could have cared less about them. And then I "grew up" and realised just how good they were.
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 6, 2016 8:27:23 GMT -5
That's what I always thought. However, I recently purchased a couple of really nice Bakelite knobs from over your side via eBay. It turned out that Heritage had used this really tiny pot with a correspondingly slim shaft and so the knob turned with an unacceptably large accentuated wobble. The answer was to replace the pot (250K log) and since it's a (floating) hummer- I went for a 500K linear to brighten things up a bit. It was completely useless, so I changed it back again to a 250K log and Ta-da, I had smooth tone control again. This puzzled me for a while but in the end I just started playing the flippin' instrument! They were Alpha pots and were just fine. I don't think I'll bother with CTS again, although Bourns do some quality items...
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 4, 2016 6:33:57 GMT -5
Kalo taxidi SG!
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 4, 2016 6:30:43 GMT -5
Easy Money (Rickie Lee Jones)
In the chorus:
Bmin He said oh yeah- oh yeah, just
Emin tell me what you want me to do, she said "Baby you can trust me..."
E "Baby but you must be..."
A "Hidin' in my room by a quarter to two"
A7
I'm sold on Lowell's version though. I couldn't find any tab so this is from ear and subsequent reference to the "Thanks I'll Eat It Here" CD for the key. Don't bite my head off if Rickie Lee wrote it in another key! I only have Rickie Lee's version on vinyl and that's all stached away these days I'm afraid.
The thread that wouldn't lay down and die!
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Post by b4nj0 on May 3, 2016 13:21:17 GMT -5
It was suggested that a 5 way might be used to give those five combinations in the OP's second posting. I agree that a four way could not give those five pickup combinations. Tea perhaps.
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Post by b4nj0 on May 3, 2016 7:32:16 GMT -5
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 17, 2016 15:22:23 GMT -5
They don't really taper as such, they have steps or parallel tracks. Where each track starts or where the steps are situated along the tracks determines the "taper". I guess that's why the tolerance of (affordable) pots is so loose?
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 16, 2016 17:24:20 GMT -5
I remember that layout too, I think you designed it after requests from those that couldn't accept losing the middle pick up option, but I recall that it compromised the original design in the switch-up options? Did it duplicate in some positions? I had a copy of it myself, but I deleted it in one of those (rare!) cathartic moments of casting "never to be used" ideas away.
I accepted your logic that the neck+bridge combination "a-la-Tele" was a more useful option and so it has proved to be the case (for myself anyway). I procurred my copy of the MR wiring from the original GN site. I remember emailing JA with a question regarding which way up the pots were intended to be. His reply was sketchy and he declined to offer any further help, indeed he issued just such a disclaimer on his site so on reflection, I don't blame him one iota. There was a significant time lapse between the two that I wired and I managed to get the pot wiring reversed both times!
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 16, 2016 3:12:44 GMT -5
The MR layout is the most comprehensive scheme that I came across that is also intuitive in use and doesn't alter the guitar's appearance at all. I wired two Strats this way. Thanks Mike.
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Post by b4nj0 on Dec 31, 2015 22:04:44 GMT -5
Yes, happy new year people.
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 28, 2015 19:07:26 GMT -5
More from Sir James the Scouser.
Another reverse (minor to major) is "Fool On The Hill"
Well, it is in my Beatles piano music book anyways (where it rocks up in the key of C- happily for your scribe!!!) but most of the online tabs have it starting off with a D6. My book goes from Cm to C at the change from chorus back to verse.
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 28, 2015 18:21:31 GMT -5
Lilac Wine by James Shelton, although in a sweet segue I'm going to award it to Jeff Buckley.
Gdim_______________________C___ Well I think much more than I want to think
Cm____________________Gm Do things I never should do
Gdim___________________C______ I drink much more than I ought to drink
Cm_______________________G___ Because It brings me back you...
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 28, 2015 17:28:26 GMT -5
Couldn't have Diana Krall all on her own on this list so here's one from Declan McManus with a little help from Sir Paul...and what a doozy. This is from the chorus. (So Like Candy)
C____________E_____________ What did I do to make her go Am___________G_________ Why must she be the one F That I have to love FM____C_____E So like Candy
I know that no one condones piracy, but if anyone knows of where a cover version by Jeff Buckley might be sourced then a PM would go down well...
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 21, 2015 4:35:06 GMT -5
Following on from GD's suggestion; how about a refret with smaller tang frets? May sound drastic, but offered in the interests of exploring every avenue.
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 19, 2015 13:27:05 GMT -5
Looking good here using a "smart" 'phone.
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 13, 2015 18:14:36 GMT -5
Not visible on Opera, Opera Classic, HTC browser nor Chrome on my HTC One M8s on Android Lollipop. Haven't tried the Nexus 7 tablets. Visible right now on Chromium running under XP SP3(but only after repeatedly inspecting the element and trying to load it on a different tab. I got the 404 at first. I have a screen shot of this page if required, couldn't be bothered to go through uploading to Photobucket. There's an issue with Flash in this XP configuration. Flash has banned certain (java etc)plugins from September 1st on security issues. Roll on HTML5... Don't get me started with the Flash fiasco! Hope this is of some help?
Edit: Refresh a page and logo is history. Copy image URL and drop in the address bar like Sumgai and back it comes, visible on all pages unless page is refreshed.
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 19, 2015 19:34:31 GMT -5
The Lovin' Spoonful. Summer In The City.
Cowboy chords and a '60s melody- they really did S-O-N-G-S. in the '60s.
Am Am/G D/F# F E
Hot town, summer in the city; back of my neck getting dirty gritty
Am Am/G D/F# F E
Been down, isn't it a pity- doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
E E7
All around- people looking half dead
Am A
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head...
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 2, 2015 13:50:32 GMT -5
The blessed Lowell George and "Twenty Million Things" (a familiar theme to me!)
G/B C If it's fix a fence, fender dents
F/C D I've got lots of experience
Dm Em G Rent gets spent, all the letters never written that don't get sent
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 20, 2015 11:34:27 GMT -5
I'm in!
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 21, 2015 4:21:05 GMT -5
It was this or Roger Miller. No contest!
Take your time 'gai
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 4, 2015 17:30:01 GMT -5
It's a tuned circuit and as such it doesn't matter what size the inductor is so long as together with the selected capacitors, it resonates at the same frequency. (The "calculator" is f=reciprocal of 2*Pi*√(L*C).)
The larger inductor mentioned (and resultant necessary different values of capacitors) will affect the "Q" and therefore the bandwidth of the pass band for any given switch position. (Which in this application is connecting a portion of the signal with what I feel comfortable in thinking of as "ground" (even though I agree it's not.)
I have no trouble in thinking of "ground" or "earth" in the context of my house wiring, even though I know that technically, it is not at that potential (at least with PME it's not). For me it's the same with a guitar's "ground"- If all the common points were strapped to true ground, wouldn't the circuit would work just the same? (albeit with safety considerations and potentially unwanted ground loops.)
Too, there are no electronics in a passively wired guitar (ie, the vast majority) but I constantly read about "electronics" in guitars. It doesn't hinder my understanding of points being made.
I think that we need to distinguish between what a tuned circuit does and what it accomplishes when we use it as a "Varitone". I fell into this "trap" (no pun intended) with my first posting. For instance, we could connect a series tuned circuit in series with the signal and it would no longer act as a notch filter.
Again, I'm coming from an RF viewpoint here, so if I've lost the plot I hold my hands up! Thanks go out to 'gai for that excellent .pdf.
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 3, 2015 4:40:52 GMT -5
I think you're about right. As I see it, it's a series resonant LC circuit that will exhibit low impedance (and thus act as a band pass filter) at the resonant frequency of the two lumped constants. The bandwidth will depend upon the "Q" of the circuit. Changing one (or both normally) of the values will change the resonant frequency and thus the band pass frequency. The higher and lower frequencies will encounter a greater impedance and will thus become attenuated. It is not a mid boost but it might give that impression. I am guilty of extrapolating from RF here, so if I'm out of my tree, I apologise and hand it over to the gurus!
Edit; Seeing Newey's reply made me realise that I should have written that because it is connected to ground, the effect is as Newey says, a notch filter.
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 8, 2015 14:10:44 GMT -5
Yup. Mea culpa. No excuse at all. Sorry guys.
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 7, 2015 13:25:44 GMT -5
10 years to the day and 1000 posts, (hopefully) It would be great if there was a round number of threads started too...
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 5, 2015 3:30:12 GMT -5
Fancy flipping the image of Joni Mitchell. Who knew that she's closet ambiguous? Magnum as well. Tut tut.
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